Children’s Day Crafts: Easy Art & Craft Ideas

Muffin Tin Crayons: Children’s Day Crafts

How To Make Muffin Tin Crayons, Muffin Tin Crayons Craft

The birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that falls on 14th November is celebrated in India as Children’s Day or Bal Divas. Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India and loved children. He was fondly called as Chacha Nehru by the kids. He always wanted children to get educated and bring glory to the motherland. Special programs are arranged for the deprived children as well. This national festival is celebrated with great gusto and zeal throughout India in the form of special programs and events for the kids. They also get engaged in making different crafts on this day. Those who love coloring would definitely love to try this craft out. Learn how to make muffin tin crayons by going through the lines below. Get ready and color your kids’ lives with exciting colors!

How To Make Muffin Tin Crayons

Method 1

Things Required

• Cupcake / Muffin Pan Cups
• Non-toxic Broken Crayons
• Vegetable Oil
• Toothpick

How to Make

• Preheat oven to 275 °F.
• Remove the paper labels from the crayon pieces. Ensure that the crayons are non-toxic.
• Pour ¼ teaspoon of vegetable oil into each muffin pan cup.
• Place the broken crayons into the prepared muffin pan cups such that they fill up to 1/3 of the cup.
• Bake the crayons in the oven for about 8 minutes.
• Keep a look at the crayons as the melt very quickly.
• Just when the crayons start to melt, remove them from the oven and gently stir each mixture with a toothpick to blend different colors together.
• Allow the crayons to cool completely.
• Tap on the backside of the muffin pans and pop up the crayons from the pans.
• Your muffin tin crayons are ready to use.

• Old Crayons
• Foil Muffin Papers (multi-colored)

• Arrange the muffin papers on a cookie sheet or in a muffin tin.
• Place in the old crayons into muffin papers according to their color.
• Bake the crayons in the oven at 200-300 °F till the crayons start melting.
• Remove form oven and allow the crayons to cool down completely.
• Carefully, peel the foil paper from the crayons.
• Muffin tin crayons are ready for coloring.